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An article in The Auckland Star for November 27th, 1873 entitled “The Hairless Horse” describes “Caoutchouc... One of the most wonderful looking creatures ever seen in the colonies” and a “..model of symmetry and beauty” (Papers Past website) corroborating the pencil note that “Not one solitary hair can be found on him from the tips of his ears to the tip of his tail, while his skin, bearing a general resemblance to India-rubber, is as soft as kid” (ibid). Another article in Auckland’s Daily Southern Cross on the 28th of that same month and year describes this brumby found near the Balonne River as having skin like that of an “Australian black fellow” (ibid). Caoutchouc is French for rubber derived from natural latex. [29] [FREAKS]. [EISENMANN (Charles)], (Photographer), (Attribution). Waino & Plutano Weight 45 pounds, Age 50 to 60. Original albumen photograph, carte-devisite. 10.4 x 6.2 (including card), laid onto green coated card with red edges, caption in darker green. N.p. [New York], n.p. [The [Popular Photographer], n.d., c. 1875. £200 Pinhole on upper edge of photo, worn corners, water damage on lower right edge of card. www.missioncreep.com depicts the same photograph, on a variant card, of the so called ‘Wild Men of Borneo’ with their ‘guardian’ Hanniford Warner. The off-stage names of the brothers were Barney and Hiram Davis. James G. Mundie, the website’s writer also notes that they worked for the circus impresario P.T. Barnum from1880. 30] [FREAKS]. Admiral Dot. Thirteen years old; Twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds & Admiral Dot. Seventeen years old Twenty-five inches high. Weighs only Twenty Pounds, two original cartes-devisite with one albumen portrait apiece, 8.6 x 5.4 cm. & 8.4 x 5.5 cm. on 10.6 x 6.2 cm. & 10.3 x 6.3 cm. off-white card, captioned, one with studio device on verso the other unknown. New York, E & H.T. Anthony & Co., n.d., 1870s. £120 Cards browned, spotting on the 17 year old Dot. ‘Admiral Dot’ was the stage name of Leopold Kahn. He performed for P.T. Barnum. [31] GILBERT & GEORGE. (the sculptors) Side by Side. First, limited edition-an artists’ book. 8vo., endpaper, blank, title, imprint, colophon, [5pp.], 170pp., [2pp.], profusely illustrated with b&w, largely photographic, plates, sewn into the original marbled cloth covered boards, titles and device in black on upper board and titles alone on spine, 58/600 numbered copies signed by G&G. London, Art For All, 1971. £1500 A near pristine copy. Scarce. G&G describe this as a “sculpture novel”. 6 [32] BOSTON POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP. Why Are You Afraid? Original poster. 57 x 44.5 cm., photomontage, titles in black, silkscreened[?] in black on white stock. N.p. [Boston], n.p. [Museum of Fine Arts School, Political Poster Workshop], n.d., 1970. £275 In very good or better condition, one corner torn. Very rare with one copy only on OCLC. The School was one of a number of centres of propaganda and dissent that emerged in 1970 when the US mounted a bombing campaign over the Vietnamese border into Cambodia. [33] A2 ANARCHIST GROUP. (Design, print, distribution). [Revolutionary Praxis is the Enemy of Revolutionary Ideology and Knows It]. Original flyer. 28 x 21.5 cm., 1l., photomontage in red and blue on pale green stock offset, typescript on verso. Ann Arbor, A2 Anarchist Group, n.d., circa 27– 28 December 1974. £75 Near fine. Very rare in both commerce and institutions with no copies on OCLC. A copy in IISH, part of the Steef Davidson collection of posters illustrated on their website. Their copy presumably not annotated. A2 describe this as “The first leaflet done on our press; the second pro-situ leaflet we published”. A collage of the marques of various radical newspapers such as ‘Workers’ Power’, ‘Yipster’ is accompanied by a photograph of Stalin’s broken statue head from the Budapest insurrection in 1956. In turn, Debord’s Thesis 124, from Society of The Spectacle is below in red with the substitution of ‘theory’ for ‘praxis’. The bottom right corner has two appropriated vignettes of Dr. Seuss’s archetypal pranksters Thing 1 and 2 with an incomprehensible equation below. The typed note adds that “This is the first copy. Nick [Totton], ever sent to the U.K. that I know about—-for whatever that’s worth!”. As with many US pro-situ productions it is lyrical and beautifully designed. [34] THORNE (Beowulf) & SHEARER (Tom) (Editors). Diseased Pariah News Nos. 1–11 [all published]. First editions, with a duplicate of #1 in reprint. Small 4to., 30pp., 30pp., 30pp., 34pp., 32pp., 30pp., 46pp., 38pp., 41pp., 38pp., 38pp., 38pp., #1 & reprint of #1, #2, #5, #7 with wraparound ‘sanitation’ bands, 3 postcards. Oakland, n.p., [Diseased Pariah News], Fog Press, 1990–1999. £550 In very good or better condition, crisp clean copies. Commercially scarce. No copies in LSD library. A complete run with one extra in reprint of the most, thoughtful, respected, reviled, transgressive and satirical zines to emerge from the American HIV postive underground, or in fact any underground scene. Tom Shearer died of AIDS related disease circa issue #2 but Wulf Thorne, born Jack Henry Foster, carried on pushing the boundaries of good taste and humour till his own death in 1999. Cover features include the very confrontational “Piss 34 Jesse”, depicting the head of Senator Jesse Helms in a bottle mocking his outrage at the public funding of Andres Serrano’s artwork ‘Piss Christ’. The very shocking and dark cover for #3 satirizes the recent death of co-editor Tom Shearer, the story within underlines the horrific ordeal that the DPN circle went through, it is subtitled, in ‘slapstick’ style: “Darn! One of our editors is dead! Can DPN withstand the test of fire?”. The zine mascot was ‘OncoMouse’, a lab rat and therefore the ultimate pariah. DPN ran a series of centrefolds that, to all intents and purposes looked like modern, straight beefcake but which included the model’s T-Cell count and favourite medications.Other articles in this densely packed, DTP designed, zine included “AIDS Barbie” with three détourned dolls posed with “Estee Lauder.. Oxygen Gurney”, IV rack and “Bob Mackie designed bedpan with rhinestone accents!”. Other more practical articles discuss food and the healthy HIV positive male, with taste tests and a column entitled “GET FAT” Don’t Die!” and another, quite dodgy, article on roadtesting amyl nitrites. This, is also a cover story entitled “Carburetor Cleaners Compared”. An important zine. [35] ACT-UP, SAN FRANSCISCO, ACT-UP GOLDEN GATE & BOY WITH ARMS AKIMBO. A collection of ephemera. 5 issues of Act-Up newsletter, several handbills; including an annotated draft of one by Act-Up Golden Gate, a marijuana one, a marijuana leaflet. A 27 x 11.7 cm. window or noticeboard card, in reverse white on black, “This is For You Because 7, 000 AIDS Deaths in S.F. Aren’t acceptable..”, 3 handout cards, 1 ‘business’ sized 35
card, 1 postcard, 1 sheet of 6 printed crack and peel stickers, another short reel of round stickers, sheet of observer/witness or steward stickers “Act Up Types are Watching”, Act-Up merchandise leaflet. 1 sheet of ‘Sex is Just Sex’ crack and peel stickers and a 57.7 x 43 cm. poster for a Canadian Micah Lexier exhibition poster on newsprint reproducing the Boy With Arms Akimbo motif on the latter stickers. Approximately 20 items, 2 relating to Akimbo. San Francisco, Act-Up/Boy With Arms Akimbo, 1989–1996. £400 Largely in very good condition, a few items creased, browned and worn. [36] AIDS KS FOUNDATION, SANTA CLARA COUNTY CHAPTER. Cache of printed ephemera, stationery, drafts and pasteups for Foundation publications. Approximately 60 items with some leaflets as multiples, much with contemporary annotations in pen. San José, AIDS/KS Foundation, santa Clara County Chapter, c. 1983–1984. £75 In good or very good condition. A modest but early and important cache of materials relating to Karposy’s Sarcoma. Includes an important document, the annotated “(preliminary) Phone Intake Sheet” for 7/83 used by the Santa Clara Chapter. [37] AIDS PROJECT OF THE EAST BAY. STEWART (Hopeton) (Photography). Brothers! It’s Hard to Remember So, Remember When It’s Hard/Girlfriend! Can We talk. It’s a Simple Matter of Protection (and various other slogans). Original photographic posters, 4 x 28 x 38 cm & 20 x 28 x 21.5 cm, 24 items, three of the larger echo the smaller series, printed in black on offwhite paper. Oakland, AIDS Project of The East Bay, n.d., c. 1990s. £300 Good to very good condition, the larger posters a trifle creased on the tail. Rare, no copies in OCLC. Stewart is the author of a 1993 book entitled ‘In Our Own Image: Art of Black Male Photography’. The portraits on the posters in hand are all of African American people across the gender, age and social spectra including transgender females, homosexual men, middle aged women, children and toddlers. All stress the same themes of using latex condoms and practising safe sex. A sober but important collection of visual responses to the AIDS crisis and the over-representation of the disease amongst the black population. “EVERYTHING IS FREE, THE REST NEEDS LIBERATING” [38] [ALBERY (Nicholas)]. Project London. Free. Original guidebook. 12mo., unpaginated, [28pp.], unevenly cut pages, stapled into the original printed paper wrapper, upper portion with titles in black, one b&w photograph in a box of stars, offset lithography. N.p. [London], n.p. [Nicholas Albery/Revelaction, printed by Lovebooks], n.d., 1969. £150 In very good or better condition. Rare, 11 copies on OCLC, all seemingly microfiche. A guide to scrounging in sixties London that includes “Free funeral: this is all you get for selling your body to medicine..”. Albery was a social entrepreneur of great renown who was involved with Frestonia and BIT and in the 90s he set up the Natural Death Centre. [39] AMERICAN DESERTERS COMMITTEE. Manifesto of The American Deserters Committee. Original handbill. A4, mimeographed in black on one side only, with a TLS from Grant Fox, ADC chairman. Montreal, American Deserters Committee, December 15, 1968. £50 Good to very good, a paper tape repair halfway down the page, the letter very good to near fine. Institutionally very rare with one copy only in OCLC at the University of Kansas. An group of AWOL soldiers formed in “..opposition to the U.S. imperialist aggression in Vietnam..”. They aimed to help “...U.S. Deserters and draft resisters gain a more political outlook toward their own actions..”. [40] BRAINARD (Joe). The Banana Book. First edition. 4to., unpaginated, 19ll., printed on rectos only, mimeographed, stab stapled thrice, in the original yellow paper boards, upper portion illustrated by Brainard, there were also 26 lettered and signed copies, signed on the first leaf. New York, Siamese Banana Press, 1972. £275 Creased and torn on lower right of upper board with two small coffee spatters on illustration, a trifle thumbed. Homo-erotic phallic photos and illustrations accompanied by witchy comments, found texts, letters etc. [41] BRASSAI (George), MILLER (Henry) (Introduction). Histoire de Marie. First edition. 12mo., endpaper, [7pp.], pp-9–90, [2pp.], sewn, in the original off-white paper jacket glued to spine, facimsile handwritten titles, one of 2500 numbered copies on Vélin Alfa from a complete run of 2753 with 100 numbered copies on Alfa Alma du Marais, 26 lettered copies reserved for friends of the author, 126 copies with an original etching. A signed inscribed, presentation copy from Brassaï to an unknown recipient in Paris in 1970. Paris, Editions du Pint du Jour, 1949 £175 The full inscription in red Biro on the section title of the introduction reads: “Un cordial souvenir de Brassaï Paris le 7 Oct. 1970”. In good to very good condition, text with endemic, even, light browning. A clean, crisp 42 solid copy. Prose poems by Brassaï, better known as a photographer than a writer. [42] [BUSCH (Keith)] a.k.a. [NABIT Dag)]. Original maquettes for Punk/New Wave gig flyers for Ohioan bands appearing at either JB’s, Kent, or The Bank, Akron. 5 x A4., newsprint and magazine collage, handlettering and colouring, 3 on blank white cartridge paper, one on ruled green (this re-used on verso), the last on a page extracted from a magazine. N.p.[Akron], 2 with dates in Biro on verso, thus: 1981. £500 A bit creased, very good, clean, crisp copies. Three of the flyers are for JB’s, they advertise performances by the “F Models wi’ Bursting Brains” and “Bak 2 one (formerly Keith Busch)”, one is for an “all ages” alcohol free event with Diffi-Cult, Kleasmos and Twist-Offs. One of the two Bank flyers is for The F Models and Unfortunate Children, the other for Big Wow, Nelsons and Bak 2 1. [43] [COHEN (Ira)], [MACLISE (Angus)] & [SMITH (Jack)]. there will be a celebration in honour of the three Magi at St. Marks Church in the Bowerie on Tuesday 6th January at 8 ‘o’ clock. it’s free heaven and earth rejoice and invitation for you. Original invitation. 8vo., 1l., folded once, [4pp.], facsimile handwritten text, 5 illustrations, in black on off-white paper, dsign by Hetty Maclise. N.p. [New York], n.p. [The Poetry Project], n.d., 1970. £165 Near fine. Very rare, no copeis on OCLC. Decorated with found symbols from the Kabbala and possibly alchemy. [44] [CORNELL (Joseph)], POLKO (Elise). Maria. First edition. Small 8vo., endpaper, ‘found’ headpiece, [10pp.], stapled into the original off white paper wrappers, title and decoration in black, glacine jjacket, one of around 100 copies, in a recent green cloth covered box, titles in gilt on leather label. N.p. [New York], for Salamander Editions, [Joseph Cornell], 1954. £750 Very good or better, rusty staples. Very rare both in institutions and in commerce with one copy only on OCLC. This privately published book, that Cornell gave 7
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